Manual of Patent Examining ProcedureJ. Michael Thesz DIANE Publishing, 1997 - 500 pages All of the current patent & copyright rules in one resource. Contains completely updated information & explains all of the changes & additions that have been made. |
Contents
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abandoned affidavit or declaration aminer Appeals and Interferences applicant's application filed application for patent application number application under 37 appropriate assigned attorney or agent bracket CCPA certificate claimed invention classification Commissioner continuation-in-part copy correct deposit account disclosed divisional application document double patenting rejection drawings Examiner Note examining group fee set file wrapper filing date final rejection foreign application foreign patent Form Paragraph granted ground of rejection identified indicate information disclosure statement international application inventor inventorship issue fee mailed ment MPEP nonprovisional oath or declaration Office action papers Patent and Trademark patent application period for response petition under 37 plication primary examiner prior application prior art priority prosecution provisional application record reduction to practice reference reissue application rejection under 35 request secrecy order small entity specification statutory invention registration subclass subject matter submitted terminal disclaimer tion Trademark Office U.S. patent USPQ
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Page 18 - ... Corporations, and any community chest, fund, or foundation, organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, or educational purposes, or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual, no substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting, to influence legislation, and which does not...
Page 20 - Commissioner, a written statement executed under oath setting forth the full facts concerning the circumstances under which such invention was made and stating the relationship (if any) of such invention to the performance of any work under any contract of the Administration.
Page 700-8 - ... patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country, before the invention thereof by the applicant for patent, or (b) the invention was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country or in public use or on sale in this country,- more than one year prior to the date of the application for patent in the United States...
Page 23 - ... own knowledge are true and that all statements made on information and belief are believed to be true; and further that these statements were made with the knowledge that willful false statements and the like so made are punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, under section...
Page 700-28 - Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Page 700-14 - Before the applicant's invention thereof the invention was made In this country by another who had not abandoned, suppressed, or concealed it. In determining priority of Invention, there shall be considered not only the respective dates of conception and reduction to practice of the invention, but also the reasonable diligence of one who was first to conceive the last to reduce to practice, from a time prior to conception by the other.
Page 700-8 - A patent may not be obtained though the invention is not identically disclosed or described as set forth in Section 102 of this title, if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art...
Page 700-14 - States, or e. the invention was described in a patent granted on an application for patent by another filed in the United States before the invention thereof by the applicant for patent...
Page 900-4 - Inventors named in the previously filed application shall have the same effect, as to such invention, as though filed on the date of the prior application, if filed before the patenting or abandonment of or termination of proceedings on the first application or on an application similarly entitled to the benefit of the filing date of the first application and if it contains or is amended to contain a specific reference to the earlier filed application.
Page 18 - State to provide a program of education beyond secondary education, (3) provides an educational program for which it awards a bachelor's degree or provides not less than a two-year program which is acceptable for full credit toward such a degree...